Why I call Him Yahshua

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Why I call Him Yahshua

Before we begin, we need to first answer the following question.

Do names matter to the Almighty?

If, from reading your Bible, you have come to see that names are very important to the Almighty, the first portion of this booklet will be a blessing to you.

We should consider...

If names are not that important why did the Almighty give special names to His people? More importantly, why did the Almighty give a special Name to Himself! And... what is that Name?

"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

Acts 4:12



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From the beginning...

From the beginning, the Almighty has asked us to call upon and proclaim His name.

Also, from the beginning there has been one who has tried to alter, obfuscate and eliminate this name from the sight and sound of mankind.

When the Almighty Himself came to earth to save us in the form of a human body, specific instructions were given to Joseph in a dream by an angel: "you shall call His name Yahshua."

We must keep in mind that the angel who spoke to Joseph did not speak to Joseph in English, Latin or Greek, but spoke to him in his own language... Hebrew.

Scripture tells us YAH chose this name for Himself. He did not allow the people to choose or decide His name. (Matthew 1:21; Luke 2:21) His instructions were clear...

"you shall call His name Yahshua."

The `Yah' in Yahshua is the Almighty's own name. (Psalm 68:4; Isaiah 12: 2; Isaiah 26:4; Revelation 19:1, 3, 4, 6)

The `shua' in Yahshua means, "is salvation".

Yahshua is the Almighty's name (YAH), followed by His highest descriptor... `is salvation'.

Yahshua means... Yah is salvation!



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If we could go back in time...

If we could go back in time and ask the disciples, "Would you take us to see Jesus?" They would have gotten a puzzled look on their face and said, "Who?"

You see, the disciples never knew the Messiah by that name. They would have said, "Please come, we want you to meet Yahshua, the Messiah!"

The name Yahshua, is pronounced like "Joshua" with a "Y." The emphasis remains with the Almighty's name `Yah,' in the first syllable.

The History of the name `Jesus'

For nearly fifteen hundred years after our Savior walked the earth, the world had never heard the name "Jesus."

The name Jesus first appeared in the King James Version revision of 1769, 243 years ago as an anglicized transcription of the Latin name `Iesus' (KJV of 1611) which is a translation of the Greek name `Ieousus.'

By 1769, our Saviors original Hebrew name, had been *transliterated three times, in three different languages:

*transliterate: to write or print (a letter or word) using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or language.



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? The first, from Hebrew to Greek. ? The second, from Greek to Latin. ? The third, from Latin to English.

Tragically, the result of these `man-made' changes was the complete removal of the Almighty's name!

"To remove the name is to extinguish the person"

"In the Scriptures there is the closest possible relationship between a person and his name, the two being practically equivalent, so that to remove the name is to extinguish the

person. To forget God's name is to depart from Him."

Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary p. 571 (1964)

In 1384, John Wycliffe translated the New Testament to English for the first time. His only source was the Latin Vulgate. Wycliffe

used the Latin spelling and pronunciation of Iesus.

The printing press had not yet been invented and only a few handwritten copies of Wycliffe's Bible were produced. In the 1450's, Gutenburg invented the printing press. Then, in 1526 William Tyndale translated the New Testament into the English language from the Latin Vulgate, along with the additional help of some ancient Greek manuscripts. Tyndale wanted the Bible translated into the language of the common people and many copies of his translation were printed with the help of the printing press.



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Tyndale was the first to use the letter `J' in the spelling of the name Jesus. There was no letter `J' in any language, prior to the fourteenth century in England. The letter did not become widely used until the Seventeenth century.

There was no letter `J' in the original 1611 version of the King

James Bible because it did not exist. James was spelled Iames. Jesus was spelled Iesus.

The letter `J' was first used in the 1769 version of the King James Bible.*

* Perhaps the biggest difference between the 1611 and 1769 versions of the King James Bible is spelling. For instance, there was no letter "J" in 1611 so "Jesus" was spelled "Iesus."

The Almighty's name is YAH in the Old Testament... But, does the Almighty Father, as Savior, still have the

name YAH in the New Testament?

YES!

In the Old Testament, when you see YHWH (YAH-WEH) or LORD; it is proclaiming the Almighty's name YAH, which is followed by a `descriptor'. The descriptor is the word `WEH', which means, "The Self-Existent one" (I AM). So, the name YAHWEH means, `YAH - The Self-Existent one' (I AM).



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The Almighty proclaims His name to us in the New Testament and notice... He does not permit anyone... to give Him a different name. (Matthew 1:21; Luke 2:21)

"and you shall call His name Yahshua"

YAH, waited to give us His highest name in the New Testament!

Now, YAH combines His name with His highest `descriptor'!

What is His highest descriptor?

It is the word `SHUA', which means "is salvation". When you combine the Almighty's name YAH, with the word SHUA, it means, "YAH is salvation"!

The Father... the Almighty, proclaims His name as Savior!

This is why the name Yahshua, is the name above all names!

How do you say Netanyahu in English?

? How do you say, "Chevrolet" in Japanese? ? How do you say, "Coca-Cola" in Russian? ? How do you say, "Yamaha" or "Mitsubishi" in English?

Have you noticed, proper names do not change sounds when moving from language to language. There may be some inflection



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here and there, but the name itself should be recognizable no matter what language you are speaking.

Listen carefully when people speak in a foreign language. No matter what language they are speaking, even if you don't speak that language, you will be able to distinguish the proper names they say. It has nothing to do with what language you speak.

We say the names of people from foreign lands all the time without feeling the need to first change them into `our' language.

People all over the world say the following names: Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara, without changing them.

Why is it the Hebrew names from scripture need to be changed?

Examples:

Yahshua... Miryam... Yochanan... Yaakov...

has been changed to Jesus has been changed to Mary has been changed to John has been changed to James

Could this have been Intentional?

Scripture tell us,

There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved."

Acts 4:12



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